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Be a Part of Protecting our National Heritage

One of the primary objectives of the Forest Service National Heritage Strategy: It’s About Time! is moving the Heritage Program more firmly into the arena of public outreach. Our vision includes a future in which:

• Fascination with the past has been transformed into understanding and appreciation.
• People look to National Forests to experience heritage sites in natural settings that still preserve a sense of place and offer the thrill of discovery.
• Forests offer an amazing range of heritage opportunities and experiences filled with learning, adventure, and fun!
• Those experiences come in a variety of forms including interpretation, educational tours, volunteer opportunities to assist with research and management, and special events.
• Heritage volunteer opportunities almost keep up with the demand.
• Heritage tourism contributes to rural community viability through involvement of local partners.
• School children know that forest rangers take care of sites, and they think that's cool!
  
• Visitors gladly pay fees for quality heritage experiences and the satisfaction of knowing they are helping care for special places.
  
• Corporate sponsors help us provide heritage learning opportunities.
  
• The public becomes our most vocal advocate as a result of their positive heritage experiences.
  

Plumas Heritage Partnership Highlight

The Oregon-California Trails Association is an organization dedicated to the preservation, appreciation and enjoyment of all the Trans-Mississippi migration trails to the West.

The Feather River Ranger District (FRRD) has a long standing partnership with the California/Nevada Chapter of OCTA. The FRRD and OCTA have worked together to preserve and interpret the Beckwourth Trail, a National Historic Trail which traverses the the Plumas National Forest. The Beckworth Trail is named after African-American explorer, James Pierson Beckwourth, who identified a low pass through the Sierra Nevadas in 1850. Today, you can follow portions of Beckwourth’s wagon road by car and on foot thanks to the mapping and trail marking efforts of our partners.

For more information visit OCTA’s website at: http://www.canvocta.org/
or send an e-mail to: jburcell@fs.fed.us.